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Saul
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Saul
@saaaauuull
Program Director, Center for Nonviolent Conflict Research
Joined October 2019
- NEW: ALL SEVEN CONTINENTS HAVE STUDENT GAZA SOLIDARITY PROTESTS 🤯
NEW: Student Gaza solidarity protests/encampments appear to have reached ALL continents but Antarctica 🤯 A brief 🧵: - BREAKING: we, staffers of the US Congress, are peacefully sitting in on Senator Schumer’s office to demand Dems pass climate justice policy this year. We are putting our bodies on the line because we have no other choice. Follow along for updates from inside!
- This week, Chile announced a proposed new constitution written by a democratically elected convention, and it is likely the most legitimate constitution in the world, as it is written boldly in the context of the climate crisis. A 🧵on its inspiring climate provisions.
- Meet Peggy Flanagan, who’ll be the first Indigenous woman governor in US history!!
- NEW: There have been over 100 Gaza solidarity encampments at colleges this week in US and abroad 🧵: Arizona ASU Auraria Barnard Berkelee Music Berkeley Brown Cal Poly Humboldt Columbia Columbia Chicago Cornell CU Denver CUNY Delaware Drexel Duke Emerson Emory Evergreen FIT FIU
- OSU UMN Penn Emory Columbia Emerson Harvard GW Northwestern Pitt Stanford UT Austin Cornell Princeton Wash U UCLA CUNY Brown Solidarity is spreading and spreading
- Eric Adams stole $10 million from New Yorkers and then said we can’t afford librariesI’m only one page in and I am floored lmaooooo wow. Defrauded New York City out of $10 million in public funds.
- UPDATE: there are now Gaza solidarity encampments/protests on campuses in at least 37 states + DC and 5+ other countries: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut DC Delaware Florida Georgia Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mass Michigan Minnesota Missouri
- Tim Walz transit report card is insane: 🚞 new popular Amtrak line (A+) 🚍 new BRT funding (A+) ⚡️100% clean energy law (A+) 🚲e-bike tax credits (A+) 🥇best climate/transp law in US (A+) 💰erased deficits (A+) ❤️🩹unarmed fare enforcement (A+) Trains are coming!
- The climate crisis is spiraling out of control. 1000s of fish are washing up dead in the Gulf of Mexico because the water is too hot to hold oxygen. This is a climate emergency.
- Tim Walz legalized weed, expunged records, and gave impacted families priority to open weed shops??
- Right now, we Hill staffers are peacefully protesting Dem leaders INSIDE. To my knowledge, this has never been done. We’ve also never seen climate catastrophe, so we’re meeting the moment. Follow along as we fight with everything we have to jumpstart climate negotiations.
- There are NEW encampments up at 8+ schools just this am, joining 100+ protests for peace across the world UChicago Georgia UC Irvine UC Riverside UW Madison Occidental UMass Amherst UBC
